– Chances are, there’s some sourceless bit of knowledge rattling around in your head. You don’t know how it got there or where it came from, but you believe it. Maybe your convictions on tire life falls into that category. We’ve always held that that our favorite round rubber bits had a fixed and somewhat short period of life before age caused a serious negative impact on performance. Turns out, we were
-The 650-hp Corvette Z06 is fast. Freaky fast. But Hennessey wants to outdo it with a regular ol’ Stingray. – The Texas tuner just demonstrated how fast a bone-stock C7 Z06 will do zero to 185 mph (and, subsequently, how quickly the gas gauge will drop on that top-speed run). We’re betting this “lesser” Stingray will do it even faster—provided it can get any traction at all. – That’s because the
– Jeremy Clarkson managed to get himself booted from what any of us would likely consider the greatest job . . . in the woooooorld. James May recently revealed that he won’t carry on with Top Gear without the loudmouthed Clarkson. Today, we learn that May only expected to get another three years out of the job anyway—but he’d already placed an order for a $317,000 Ferrari 458 Speciale, a
– Jeremy Clarkson managed to get himself booted from what any of us would likely consider the greatest job . . . in the woooooorld. James May recently revealed that he won’t carry on with Top Gear without the loudmouthed Clarkson. Today, we learn that May only expected to get another three years out of the job anyway—but he’d already placed an order for a $317,000 Ferrari 458 Speciale, a
-The 650-hp Corvette Z06 is fast. Freaky fast. But Hennessey wants to outdo it with a regular ol’ Stingray. – The Texas tuner just demonstrated how fast a bone-stock C7 Z06 will do zero to 185 mph (and, subsequently, how quickly the gas gauge will drop on that top-speed run). We’re betting this “lesser” Stingray will do it even faster—provided it can get any traction at all. – That’s because the
-Is Ferdinand Piëch a man that Bob Lutz would have liked to work for? No, says the former General Motors executive in his signature, no-BS manner. He calles Piëch “the autocrat’s autocrat” but then explains that when you set aside the man’s “personal idiosyncrasies,” it is impossible to argue with his brilliance as a product genius with no tolerance for mediocrity. – It’s all in an exit interview that Lutz did with
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– We’ve had the pleasure of sampling some of the country’s best driving schools but were intrigued at the notion of moving from the track to the dirt. So we signed up for a stint at DirtFish rally school in Snoqualmie, Washington. – Our TV-savvy readers may recognize this location from Twin Peaks, the wonderfully bizarre, early ’90s crime thriller; the 315-acre facility is where much of the show was
– – The Chinese automaker that unveiled a fish-tank armrest at this year’s Detroit auto show would like to sell Americans an SUV in 2017. It would cost 30 percent less than a comparable Toyota RAV4, plus its maker claims it’ll be more efficient, powerful, and roomier—although it will come sans the aquarium in the back seat. – Those claims come from an Automotive News interview with Guangzhou Automobile Group
-The 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 is undoubtedly wicked. It packs a 500-plus-hp flat-crank V-8. Gobs of sticky rubber stuffed under widened aluminum fenders. Magnetorheological shocks. Aero-focused bodywork and track-hammering chassis tuning. And there’s more. Now, Ford says, there will be a precious few available with 2015-model-year VINs. – The car was debuted last fall as a 2016, and it was quickly followed in January by the even more hard-core GT350R, also as a